"The risk of disruption to energy supplies this winter is no higher than it has been in recent years," Rachel Fletcher, senior partner for markets at Ofgem, told attendees at the regulator's winter outlook seminar at the end of October.

Electricity Market Reform is moving very fast into its implementation phase and we should have both an initial Capacity Market (CM) auction and an allocation round for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) completed at the turn of the year. But that do